Know Yourself: A Guide to Social Emotional Learning for Work and Life (e-Book)

Guided by a vision and commitment to the belief that we each have the potential to improve our personal effectiveness and interactions with others, Dr. Khalif Jackson has written an exciting, insightfully instructive new book entitled “Know Your Self”.

In it, he extols the benefits of Social Emotional Learning, or SEL for short which is an educational methodology underscoring the importance of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship building and responsible decision making. Readers will learn how focusing on improving those characteristics can enhance our personal effectiveness and interpersonal skills. It also contributes towards an improvement of our decision-making capabilities.

Drawing from a number of personal and professional occurrences in his journey, Dr. Jackson elucidates how life experiences can affect or control the manner in which each of us reacts and responds to the people and circumstances in our lives. Utilizing the principles of SEL, he helps us understand how modest adjustments can dramatically enable us to enhance our individual performance as well as our ability to more effectively work with others.

If you believe in the opportunity and need for: ongoing self-improvement; treating all others with dignity and respect; building and maintaining trusting relationships; and using new learning to spur personal growth, while simultaneously being able to help others do their best work, “Know Your Self” is a must read.

In a straightforward, detailed way, Dr. Jackson outlines a variety of pragmatic steps we can each take not only to improve our own effectiveness, but also motivate, inspire and enable others to do their best work. As a result, he’s created a roadmap that will enable his readers to make even more meaningful contributions. At the end of each chapter, he includes a summary, reflective questions and affirmations, each of which is a very effective tool to support the continuous improvement opportunities that he identifies.

“Know Your Self” is a wonderful book, chock-full of life-changing, life-enhancing advice. Dr. Jackson’s thesis is well-researched and his fresh perspective is exceedingly timely, topical and informative. It’s a fascinating, wonderful book. I learned a great deal from his text and I was blessed by it. I’m confident that once you read it, you’ll have the same experience.